When I saw the call for bloggers to join this tour, hosted by Lulu and Celeste, I wanted to be part of this right away. Sadly for me, when I joined, a lot of places were already taken. A smile returned to my face though, when I realised I could sign for Filles à Maman, and have a chance to sew and blog about another one of Mel's patterns. You can see the ones i did before here and here.

Looking
back, my last projects were all made out of fabric pieces, instead of my usual
refashions. It was about time to go back to my thing, like an appetizer for the
next month, and so, because the pattern mixes knit and woven fabric, I
refashioned a daddy’s polo shirt. The colors and pattern of the original shirt
and the Marc shirt pattern were the perfect match to make the newest shirt for
my little one. I loved it!

I didn’t
want to repeat myself by saying how good the instructions are, and how much I
liked the finishing touches, so pro, but those things are there, and I can’t
pass through them. I particularly liked the use of interfacing to give some
structure to the piece and stability to the knit so it doesn’t stretch. When I
learnt how to sew a little more seriously, it was really common the use of
interfacing, then when I started using the PDF patterns, it was something I
missed. It is not a difficult pattern to make, nor even takes too long to make
it. You can do it in a morning time or afternoon, or in a longer nap from your
babies. It took me 3 hours, even with a crawling baby that just wouldn’t stop.

I chose the smaller size – it goes from 12M to 14Y – for S. and because
short sleeved shirts is what he needs the most, that was the option I picked
too. The only thing I did differently was the sleeves. I wanted to use the
original sleeves hems/bands, so those look different from the pattern. Apart
from that, everything was made as is and I had no problem at all. I see a lot
of these shirts in our future, this is definitely one of my favorite boy
patterns, tried and approved.